JuneNYsAdventuresPart2

 SUNDAY:  Church was very good today, and the sanctuary was quite full.  After church, Lori, Glenda, Andrea and I went to the OLIVE LEAF for lunch.  Andrea had her twin granddaughters (Lucy and Ella with her, so it was kind of an interesting lunch.  The twins who are going on age five were well behaved, but talked a lot, and ate very little.  Lori asked me if I was going to the concert later on, the LOCK CITY CHORUS at Grace Episcopal Church, and I said I would go with her.  Unfortunately that did not work out.  We met up at my house after leaving the restaurant but time was running short, so she decided to go to the church right away so that she would be able to get a good parking spot, and I would leave in ten minutes.  However, when I got there, all of the parking spots were taken, even along the road.  I called Lori to tell her I would not be coming in because of the parking situation and she told me that every seat in the church was...

 SUNDAY:  Church was very good.  Glenda, Marlene, Lori and I had lunch together at APPLEBEEs.  I had the grilled chicken and brought half of it home.  I stopped at Rite Aid before going home but even though there was an automated call telling me that my prescription would be ready to pick up on the 8th, now they say it will be available on the 10th.  UGH.  I spent the rest of the day at home.  I called Specturm asking for help with getting my TV with the XUMO box working and I reached a very friendly tech who had me try a LOT of things, but the issue is not resolved.  I set up for a technician to come tomorrow between one and two p.m.  In the evening, I started to measure out the ingredients for fruitcake, which I plan to make in the morning. I finished folding yesterdays laundry and put some away.  I watched a couple more episodes of THE HANDMAIDS TALE MONDAY:  I was woke up by a phone call from Spectrum at a little after eigh...

 SUNDAY:  Church was very good this morning.  I slipped out as soon as the sermon was over so that I could help Peggy and a couple of others get ready for the CONNECT Christmas Party.  The party went very well and was a lot of fun.  In the gift exchange, I got a 2025 day planner and a box of candy.   I gave the day planner to Sue Rausch and someone took the candy off of the TRADE TABLE and left me a small box of small Christmas ornaments and I gave those to Lori.  Dee Mann got the handmade Israeli pot I wrapped up and I do not know why she traded it, but Marlene ended up with it.  I had given Peggy a light up church to put in her mini basket raffle but instead she put it in the gift exchange and Terri Ackerman got that and kept it.  Unfortunately, the cook (Mike Kotek), right after completing the food for the party, was taken to the local hospital with a heart issue.  After the party ended, I picked Betty up and took her to the downtown...

   why did illegal immigration explode to levels never seen before? One, the left saw millions of desperately poor foreign nationals as a natural long-term constituency for their big-government, anti-poverty programs. They felt that some 20-30 million illegal aliens over the last 50 years, along with their children, had flipped California, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado—and soon Arizona—from blue to red as planned. Of course, should the sudden Hispanic backlash against the immigration insanity of bicoastal elites persist, then the left might turn on their Hispanic voters as illiberal or brainwashed by the right—and ironically move to close the border to preclude more MAGA boosters. Two, Mexico and Latin America received some 120 billion dollars per year in remittances, mostly sent by their own citizens residing illegally in the U.S. and reliant on American government services that free them up to send billions into the coffers of our own increasingly hostile neighbors. Mexico fu...

 SUNDAY the 24th:   Church was very good this morning and after that there was a spaghetti dinner and basket raffle in the small sanctuary to raise money for the men who are going to Southern Mexico on a mission trip early next year.  The number of people who went was kind of low.  I bought twenty dollars worth of tickets even though I didn't see anything that I really wanted because I wanted to support the mens group.  Elizabetty won THREE baskets.    I won a gift certificate for twenty dollars for COUSINS CAFE, so I got my twenty dollars back.  Lori won a certificate for a shampoo and haircut.  Glenda didn't win anything.  Marlene didn't buy any tickets, and she left before the drawing.  Before going home, I went to ALDI to get milk and Cool Whip, but they did not have any Cool Whip.  I need it for the chocolate cream pie I will make on Thanksgiving morning.  In the evening I found the show HOW IT REALLY HAPPENED on...

 SUNDAY:  Church was VERY good.  I dropped off the final two OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD BOXES.  After church, Marlene, Glenda, myself, Andrea and her friend Liz met up at LaPorts for lunch.  I had the small smoked pork chop dinner, and brought part of the chop home along with one piece of garlic toast. I had a nap in the afternoon, and spent the rest of the day at home.  I messaged back and forth with Megan in the evening, regarding politics.  We are on totally different wavelengths. She has listened to the liberal fearmongers.     MONDAY::  in the morning, I purchased my trip insurance from AAA.  The policy is fifty pages long, so I will not print it out.  But I will save it in my email, along with the confirmation/receipt.  I then worked on my homework for tomorrow's Life Group.  Then I headed over to GYPSY KITCHEN to meet up with Gail and Peggy.  First, I stopped at Citizens and got some cash.  When I...